NEW YORK -- Office of Emergency Management officials say a woman was outside shoveling snow when she was killed by falling bricks in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Tuesday.Police said it happened at around 12:30 p.m. at the corner of 54th Street and Sixth Avenue.Images from Google Earth show what the building used to look like, with a decorative facade at the entrance of the building. But after Tuesday's collapse, all you can see are exposed bricks and debris on the ground.
She always say hi to me. We always stop and talk sometimes. She stop and talk to me, say, 'Hello, how's the family?'' Mayra Martinez said. 'All the time she was cleaning over here and sweeping over here all the time. I'm very sad.''Yeah, nice lady ... I know her long time, more than 10 years,' said Yan Chen, at Kang Wei Laundromat.The Department of Buildings says the two-story brownstone is 120 years old.